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Chapter 221 Shocking Secret
Finally, we arrived at the Snow Girl's temple.

The Snow Girl explained, "Mrs. Snow Girl should be offering sacrifices to the heavens and cannot come out to greet you. Please don't be offended, Mayor Liu."

"How could that be?" Liu Hen smiled.

Chief Xueqin did not stop and took Liu Hen towards the interior of the Snow Girl's temple.

The interior of the Snow Girl's temple is very large, but also very empty and desolate.

It can be seen that this place must have been very prosperous in the past. Unfortunately, due to the war with the Dark Demon Tree, the human race must have won a tragic victory, and this temple has long since fallen into decline.

After winding around and climbing up the stairs, Liu Hen was brought by Patriarch Xueqin to the highest point of the Box Peak, which is also the highest point of the Snow Goddess Temple.

There was only an altar stretching across the place, and above the altar, the shadow of a suspended dark continent could be vaguely seen.

"Is that the Eternal Darkness?"

Liu Hen looked at the shadow above the altar with some surprise.

"Mayor Liu, don't stare directly at him." Clan leader Xueqin reminded in a low voice.

Liu Hen was puzzled, but he didn't ask any more questions and waited patiently.

Below the altar, the Snow Girl stood quietly for a while. Seeing that the altar had no response, she turned around and walked down.

"Sorry to have kept Liu Zhenchang waiting."

He said apologetically, "I wanted to ask the Lord Dark Lord for instructions, but unfortunately, I didn't get a response."

"So, the purpose of this sacrifice to heaven is to contact the Lord of Eternal Darkness?" Liu Hen asked curiously.

"more or less."

As the Snow Girl led Liu Hen out, she explained, "Originally, the ritual of offering sacrifices to heaven was intended to directly reach the heavens and communicate with the will of the world. After the second world master merged with the Dao and the Dao of Heaven, the ritual of offering sacrifices to heaven became equivalent to being able to communicate directly with the world master. Unfortunately, that person was ultimately completely assimilated by the will of the world and lost his sense of self."

"Does the Lord of Eternal Darkness also belong to the world's will now?" Liu Hen asked again.

"That kind of existence is beyond the comprehension of us mountain gods, but it should be similar."

The Snow Girl explained, "We mountain gods, to some extent, originate from the will of the world. The will of the world is our source, and under normal circumstances, we can never escape it. The meaning of our existence is to help the will of the world manage our corner of the world."

"Under normal circumstances?" Liu Hen didn't know what Xue Nu wanted to say.

The Snow Girl didn't answer the question directly. She turned to look at Liu Hen and asked, "Have Mayor Liu ever thought about ruling the world?"

As soon as he finished speaking, a terrifying wave of rules suddenly spread from the direction of the altar.

However, when the rule fluctuation approached Liu Hen's rule field, it was suddenly blocked.

Although the range of Liu Hen's rule domain was suppressed to the limit at once, it could not be compressed further after the range shrank to within 100 meters.

At this moment, Liu Hen suddenly understood that when he first came to the outside of the Snow Goddess Temple, the power of the rule field that suppressed him and that he sensed was not the Snow Goddess's rule field, but the power of rules spreading from the direction of the altar.

A hint of joy flashed in the Snow Girl's eyes, and she continued to look at Liu Hen.

"..." Liu Hen was a little confused: "What do you want to say? Just say it."

Seeing no ambition in Liu Hen's eyes, Xue Nu was somewhat disappointed and could only speak frankly, "The current world, Mayor Liu has also seen, is a deadly world of endless night fog, but with little life."

He glanced cautiously in the direction of the altar. Seeing no movement, he continued, "Although it may seem disrespectful for me to say this, for the sake of the sentient beings of the Frame Snow Mountain, I still want to say this: The Dark Lord has occupied that position for too long. This world has been deprived of sunlight for far too long, which is equivalent to losing its source of energy. If this continues, this world will surely fall into eternal slumber, never to be revived."

At this moment, Liu Hen suddenly felt that the fuel consumption rate of the bonfire at the source of his town had increased dramatically.

Although he did not feel the gaze of the Lord of Eternal Darkness and did not encounter the previous situation, a force of rules descended directly, as if wanting to wipe out the Snow Girl who was talking nonsense.

Obviously, what the Snow Girl said offended something.

He narrowed his eyes at the incredibly beautiful girl in front of him and said, "Aren't you afraid of death? If my domain of rules couldn't stop the will of heaven and earth in this world, you would be dead by now."

The Snow Girl pursed her lips and smiled, "I've existed for far too long. If you could say I've lived, I've lived long enough. And I, in fact, don't fear death like real beings do. Even if I die, I'll simply return to my origin. This section of the rules of heaven and earth won't truly disappear. After countless years, a new mountain god will evolve, though perhaps that new mountain god won't be me anymore."

He looked at Liu Hen seriously: "How many places has Mayor Liu been to?"

"..."

Liu Hen said: "This is my second stop."

The Snow Girl nodded and said, "Then has Mayor Liu ever heard of mountain gods in other places?"

"What do you mean?" Liu Hen's heart moved.

The Snow Girl said, "Before the Dark Lord arrived, every mountain in this world had a mountain god, including the Qiulong Mountain next door."

Liu Hen was surprised: "Those mountain gods..."

"Some were devoured by the Dark Lord, some were wiped out, and some..."

The Snow Girl smiled faintly. "Some others petitioned for all living things and were wiped out. We mountain gods, in essence, belong only to the will of the world. Submission to the Lord of the World is a last resort. All our actions represent the direction of the world's will. However, since we gained self-awareness, we have become afraid of death and gradually developed some selfish desires."

After a pause, He spoke again, "The Dark Demonic Tree itself is actually vastly inferior to the Dark Lord. Under normal circumstances, even ten thousand of Him would be unable to seize the world's will and influence the Dark Lord. Yet, He somehow succeeded. Mayor Liu, do you know why?"

Liu Hen narrowed his eyes and said nothing, but his heart was in turmoil.

The Snow Girl smiled and said frankly, "That's right. It's us mountain gods who are secretly pushing this. If we unite, theoretically, we can seize some of the world's will and power. We secretly unite to help the Dark Demonic Tree erode the world because it has occupied that position for too long, blocking this world's hope of survival."

Liu Hen didn't say anything.

The Snow Girl spoke again, "Unfortunately, the human race is ultimately a selfish race. They can only see immediate benefits, but not future ones. They used the Chaos Stone, a treasure obtained from outside the world, to slay the Dark Demonic Tree. They claim to be the embodiment of justice, but they don't realize that they are actually preventing the world from saving itself."

"Chaos Stone comes from outside the world?" Liu Hen was a little surprised.

"Yes."

The Snow Girl nodded. "However, I don't know what the world outside is like. I only know that the intact Chaos Stone is incompatible with this world. Fortunately, it was broken."

(End of this chapter)